Minutes of the June 12, 1997 general membership meeting were distributed
and approved with the correction of the spelling of Myron Okada's name.

Chair Davis opened the floor to announcements:

Ken Firestein announced the airing of a program on libraries and telecommunication
on PBS this evening at 10.

Marilyn Sharrow mentioned there will be an update on the California Digital
Library on January 20 at 2 pm conducted by Beverlee French.

Another statewide LAUC call for research proposals has gone out; new proposals
are due by the end of this month.

Chair Davis mentioned that there is now a LAUC-D Web page very capably
done by LAUC-D Secretary Marcia Meister. LAUC-D General Membership and
Executive Board minutes are now being posted there. If you have suggestions
for inclusion to the Web page, please direct them to Marcia or Rebecca.

University Librarian Sharrow announced that there will be a celebration
of the works of Rudyard Kipling at the Library on February 2 from 4 to
6 pm in the Library Instruction Room. Prof. Thomas Pinney from Pomona College,
a celebrated Kipling expert, will give a talk.

The Library has been filmed as part of a campus commitment to publicizing
its resources and services on PBS. The clip, to be aired on January 30,at
noon, 6pm and 7pm, featuring the Library, was free, but UCD pays substantial
fees for its presence on Channel 6.

The Governor's budget has been released; in it he is requesting $3 million
for the California Digital Library. According to University Librarian Sharrow,
the Digital Library's first year will concentrate on activities in behalf
of faculty and students, and only in later years will there be emphasis
on wide public access to the Digital Library. The campus organization JCCT
has among its goals to do more for the faculty in educating and assisting
them to use automation; another goal is to recommend to IT ways to do a
better job of educating faculty to do electronic teaching. The Arbor is
a comfortable venue funded by IT for faculty; it offers help to the faculty
on how to use the World Wide Web and other computer-related
activities.

Chair Davis offered highlights of the LAUC Fall Assembly on November
21, 1997:

Changes in language to the APM were discussed at the Assembly. UCLA submitted a
resolution to the Assembly which addressed the proposed additional languge for
the APM. The language, proposed by UCOP, would have created a section which
would formalize language regarding the normal period of service in the Librarian
series ranks. Lucia Snowhill had already drafted a letter from statewide LAUC
explaining that the Professional Governance Committee was currently working on
the proposal to add steps to the Librarian Series and the issue of criteria for
advancement from from Librarian IV to Librarian V, and that any changes in the
language of the APM should be deferred until that report was completed. A
revised resolution, drafted by UC San Diego which supported deferring any
changes in the APM was passed.

The Diversity Committee is compiling a roster of UC libraries' ethnic collections
as well as monitoring recruitment and retention of minority librarians.

Karen Andrews reported on the work of the Library Planning and Action Initiatives
committee. The committee has now been disbanded and will be reconstituted.
Dick Lucier, a LAUC representative and two University Librarians will serve
on the new committee, which will number from 10 to 15 members. The new
committee will be chaired by Carol Christ.

Myron Okada reported on personnel issues. That day (November 21) the Regents
approved a same-sex domestic partners proposal, which allows sharing of
health benefits, but not housing and retirement benefits.

Gary Lawrence of the Office of the President gave an update on three new
positions for the California Digital Library.

In the afternoon there was a panel discussion on scholarly communication
with Harvey Himmelfarb, Carole Tomlinson- Keasey, and Michael Tanner.

The next Assembly will take place May 1 in San Diego.

Chair Davis opened the discussion of the administrative stipend proposal.

George Bynon gave some background: the stipend issue goes back several
years and has been discussed a lot by LAUC-D and the union.
UC University Librarians support stipends. The trigger for the implementation
of stipends has been changes to APM 633 and 360. Library Administration
wanted to consult with the affected group and LAUC-D. The affected group
has approved Library Administration's proposal unanimously. Provost Grey
would still be receptive to changes to the proposal sent to it by the Library
Administration; hence, this meeting has been called for possible further
input by LAUC-D members.

Chair Davis opened the floor for comments.

Patsy Inouye asked for Dave Lundquist's comments regarding the proposal
for a two- or three-tiered approach made three years ago. The current proposal
doesn't speak to numbers of FTE supervised by the stipend recipient at
all. UCLA will implement its stipend program soon, as will Riverside. The
UCLA model will be based on the amount of budget, excluding collections,
under the authority of the supervisor, and will range from $350 to $600
per month. UCLA's proposal has come out in the wake of a campuswide review
of adminstrative stipends. Santa Barbara is also close to implementing
its stipend plan; Santa Cruz will follow the Davis model. Berkeley was
unsure of how to treat unaffiliated branch supervising librarians, so the
issue is in committee on that campus. San Diego doesn't plan to implement
stipends due to lack of funds. Irvine is still studying the issue. All
campuses will take the money for stipends from their existing library budgets.
In all cases, stipends are associated with positions, not persons. George
Bynon said that the criterion Library Administration opted for in deciding
who gets stipends is simple: department heads. While there is some
unavoidable inequity in that supervisors of large departments will receive
the same amount of stipend as supervisors of small ones, in practice there
is not a large range in sizes with the exception of the Catalog Department.
Ken Firestein wondered about basing the stipend amounts on a percentage
of a librarian's salary in the same way that COLAs are. George pointed
out that this would mean that stipends depend on persons rather than positions.
What about the head of Access Services, who supervises no librarians? According
to George, there is nothing in the stipend proposal that excludes librarians
who don't supervise librarians. Patsy raised the issue of represented librarians
who could conceivably merit stipends. George said that the Library Administration
decided to limit the stipends to department for two reasons: there isn't
a lot of money, and department heads are involved with the Administration
in deciding Library policy.

Chair Davis entertained a motion to endorse the administrative stipend
proposal. John Sherlock moved and Reve Rocke seconded. The motion passed
with 11 yeas and 7 abstentions.

Chair Davis opened the floor for discussion of the issue of the possible
effect of stipends on the peer review process. Patsy expressed her belief
that since stipends go to positions and not to persons, they wouldn't enter
into peer review at all. Other campuses go so far as to say new supervisor
librarian series might be required. According to our Review Board there
is no reason for such a change. George added that someone's performance
would not affect whether s/he gets a stipend. Fixed amounts fit with positions
and not persons. Chair Davis will report at the March LAUC Statewide
Executive Board that we see no peer review problem. George asked Chair
Davis if he could move forward with the proposal now and ignore the January
23 deadline that he and Davis had originally agreed on. Chair Davis responded
yes.

Susan Casement reported on the Program Committee. There is going to
be a program on changes at the Physical Sciences Library and another one
on "cultural riddles." No dates have been set.

Ken Firestein asked about inclusion of opposite-sex partners in UC's
domestic partners proposal. Myron Okada has said that UC doesn't want to
"lead the pack" here. Other universities have same- sex domestic
partners programs. There is a fear that including opposite-sex partners
might cost too much. The Office of the President is still looking
at refining the language of the proposal. Open enrollment for domestic
partners will take place at a special enrollment period next April

The Diversity Program will sponsor a talk on February 20 by Professor
Vermeij of the Geology Department on his life as a blind scholar.
The program will be held in the Library Instruction Room at noon-1pm as
a brown-bag lunch.